Looking for vacation calendar options

[JaredBusch]

I want to avoid the Exchange/Outlook shred calendar route if possible. I know it exists. But what else is a good option?

[scottalanmiller]

That new hub thing in Office 365 is for this, I think.

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

That new hub thing in Office 365 is for this, I think.

Client does not have O365.

[Obsolesce]

I am actually going through this now myself, and presented an option on WordPress that they liked.

Here's what I showed them:

[Obsolesce]

I REALLY dumbed it down a lot, so this is all they see when adding a calendar entry:
(all easy to do with custom CSS)

[travisdh1]

@jaredbusch said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

I want to avoid the Exchange/Outlook shred calendar route if possible. I know it exists. But what else is a good option?

Do they have any kind of shared calendar right now? Ideally, just make a new calendar in what they already use. In my case it'd be in G Suite.

[JaredBusch]

@travisdh1 said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

@jaredbusch said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

I want to avoid the Exchange/Outlook shred calendar route if possible. I know it exists. But what else is a good option?

Do they have any kind of shared calendar right now? Ideally, just make a new calendar in what they already use. In my case it'd be in G Suite.

They have Exchange 2010 and I don't want to deal with it.

[dbeato]

I don’t want to be a vendor bias but, have you considered CodeTwo Exchnage folder sync to have the calendar folder synced across all the mailboxes included?

[bbigford]

Might give this a look...
https://www.teamup.com/

[Obsolesce]

We have O365 / Exchange 2016 and still didn't want to screw with that crap.

It's great for personal calendars in Outlook / OWA, conference room booking and such.. but beyond that, definitely not.

For personnel / vacation absences and such, we were using some Perl script from the early 90s. But it's finally starting to get buggy and not work correctly and nobody wants to mess with it.

There's some other stuff out there like it, but it just isn't a good fit. Either too many known bugs, too weird, costs money, etc. The biggest kill for most things was that there was way too much stuff in it and would just confuse the hell out of people.

So I found two good Calendar add-ons for Wordpress that do very well (as shown in my screenshots), and even more so when you hide all the extra crap you don't need, that links great to our Intranet page. It requires a light amount of set-up, but after that, it's super easy to manage... autoupdate, hand it off to HR or whatever after it's going. I or IT will just worry about the VM / back end of it.

[NashBrydges]

@jaredbusch said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

I want to avoid the Exchange/Outlook shred calendar route if possible. I know it exists. But what else is a good option?

Is there a need for an approval workflow in the process before the entry is accepted and posted or just a simple shared events calendar?

[Dashrender]

Is phone access required?

[crustachio]

Zoho Calendar is free and quite robust. Maybe overkill though.

[Reid Cooper]

@crustachio said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

Zoho Calendar is free and quite robust. Maybe overkill though.

Only really "overkill" if it isn't free.